pottur

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”), from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot, jar, tub”). Cognate with Old English pott (“pot”). More at pot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰɔhtʏr/
  • Rhymes: -ɔhtʏr

Noun

pottur m (genitive singular potts, nominative plural pottar)

1. a pot
2. a pot, a pool of money
3. (bathing) a hot tub, a small extra pool like a hot spring alongside a swimming pool
4. a liter, especially of milk

Declension

declension of pottur

m-s1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pottur	potturinn	pottar	pottarnir
accusative	pott	pottinn	potta	pottana
dative	potti	pottinum	pottum	pottunum
genitive	potts	pottsins	potta	pottanna

Synonyms

• (a hot tub): heitur pottur m

Derived terms

• vera vel í pottinn búið (to be well prepared)
• vera illa í pottinn búið (to be badly prepared)
• vera potturinn og pannan í (be the moving spirit in an enterprise)
• víða er pottur brotinn (it is not only here that things are wrong)
• þetta er þannig í pottinn búið (the real situation is this)
• pottþéttur m, pottþétt f or n